Speaking selected blocks of text in preview

Hello everyone.
Hi, I am a fan of Speech functionality and use 'Start Speaking' in Preview for reading blocks of text back to myself.  Whatever text was selected is what would be read.  Now suddenly, every time I try to do this, it starts reading from the start of the document, regardless of what is selected. I discovered that selecting View > PDF Display > Single Page instead of Single Page Continuous makes it at least start reading from the beginning of the page I am on, but this is still annoying in most cases.  The behaviour works as before in web browsers, but not Preview.
Any idea why this is? Did I change something? Why would the behaviour suddenly change?
Thanks

Never mind , a post in the sidebar answered the question.

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